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You all realize that icecubes are largely clear, right? And that you would see the mentos long before it melted and probably not drink a tainted cola, right?
1. freeze ice cubes in a mold so that there is half a sphere taken out of one of the faces of the cube. So, a half-sphere raised in the bottom of an otherwise rectangular mold.
2. In a frozen environment, take 2 of the above cubes. Place 1 mentos into the empty half-sphere of one of the cubes.
3. Still in the freezing environment, use a thin layer of water to seal the surfaces of the 2 cubes together around the mentos. Deploy cubes when unsuspecting victim is ready for his treat.
@OrbitalGun: +1
Maybe you could even install a Mentos dropper in the ceiling. Based on the same premise as the "Claw" game at arcades where you try to get a stuffed animal out of a box. However, in this instance, you control a Mentos dropper. That you swiftly maneuvre to drop said Mentos into an unsuspecting guest's drink.
Why must we all insist on using the latest gags. What's wrong with a nice, old-fashioned prank like whoopie cushions, vampire teeth, or staking burning crosses in people's front lawns?
even if you could avoid having the mentos being physically compromised, since the ice will not melt uniformly, it will result in a small amount of surface area being exposed, which would only grow very gradually, which wouldn't have the violent effect that introducing all the surface area at once does.
For some reason I hate those guys. I've never seen them before, but I hate them.
At least it provides a good example of why you should be careful on the internet. If you aren't, you'll end up looking like a tool who gets waaaay too excited about mentos.
I wonder if you spritzed the mentos in oil then dipped them in corn starch would that help in preserving the mentos long enough until the ice melts. This of course assume the oil doesn't cause the shell to dissolve. Then further assuming that the gluten shell of the corn starch would be stable enough to block out water. Then further further assuming that once the ice melts you'd somehow get the corn starch coatings off.... Ok maybe this is a bad idea :P
Easy solution. Take the Mento, and surround it with some plastic wrap/wax paper, with the top of the tuft sticking out of the top of the cube. That should protect it until the melting cube breaks up, and gravity will make the pouch fall and as soon as some coke hits the mento, it will push the mento out of the plastic and you have a fountain.
@GitEmSteveDave_DeathPanelist: Hell, for that amount of work it's easier (and perhaps just as funny) to throw your drink in the intended victim's face.
@GitEmSteveDave_DeathPanelist: Close - Freeze two ice-cubes with a mento sitting on top of each, creating a divot.
Once frozen, remove the mento from each, place a new mento in the divot of one. This is the 'bottom'. Take some warm water on your finger tip and run it around the rim of the 'bottom' cube. Then take the other cube and put it on top. Stick the whole thing in the freezer.
This way you should have an encapsulated mento - untouched by water.
@bornonbord: What you say is true: It would still get wet as it melts. one side of the Mentos will be touching the ice, and as long as it has any salt in it, it will lower the freezing point and melt the ice on the inside.
@bornonbord: What you say is true: I know it melts from the outside in. But if there sodium in the Mento shell, as the melting nears it, the contact with the water will melt the shell.
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2. In a frozen environment, take 2 of the above cubes. Place 1 mentos into the empty half-sphere of one of the cubes.
3. Still in the freezing environment, use a thin layer of water to seal the surfaces of the 2 cubes together around the mentos. Deploy cubes when unsuspecting victim is ready for his treat.
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Maybe you could even install a Mentos dropper in the ceiling. Based on the same premise as the "Claw" game at arcades where you try to get a stuffed animal out of a box. However, in this instance, you control a Mentos dropper. That you swiftly maneuvre to drop said Mentos into an unsuspecting guest's drink.
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We've all grown up too fast i say.
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At least it provides a good example of why you should be careful on the internet. If you aren't, you'll end up looking like a tool who gets waaaay too excited about mentos.
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Mentos in DIET cola: less sticky eruption
Mentos in beer: Milder eruption
Mentos in pee: Minty Pee.
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I think.
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@GitEmSteveDave_DeathPanelist: Close - Freeze two ice-cubes with a mento sitting on top of each, creating a divot.
Once frozen, remove the mento from each, place a new mento in the divot of one. This is the 'bottom'. Take some warm water on your finger tip and run it around the rim of the 'bottom' cube. Then take the other cube and put it on top. Stick the whole thing in the freezer.
This way you should have an encapsulated mento - untouched by water.
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Besides, the seal would most likely melt first, bringing a gush of soda to the inner chambers.
(also, apologies for spelling your name wrong in the illustration)
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